home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   nyc.transit      Advice on getting mugged on the subways      3,014 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 2,606 of 3,014   
   Leroy N. Soetoro to All   
   NYU (Ex-Columbia, sound familiar?) profe   
   09 Mar 20 02:24:43   
   
   XPost: alt.society.anarchy, alt.politics.radical-left, sac.politics   
   XPost: alt.politics.socialism.democratic, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,   
   talk.politics.guns   
   From: leroysoetoro@kaga.com   
      
   Obama allegedly went to Columbia.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2020/02/15/nyu-professor-founded-anarchist-group-that-   
   attacked-subways-last-month/   
      
   A New York University professor is one of the masterminds behind the   
   anarchist group that organized the rampage through the subways last month,   
   destroying turnstiles, stranding thousands of commuters and spray-painting   
   “F–k Cops” on station walls.   
      
   Amin Husain, 44, is a co-founder of Decolonize This Place, which urged its   
   radical followers in a social media campaign to “f-ck sh-t up” on Jan. 31   
   in a violent assault on the city’s transit system that concluded with 13   
   arrests and $100,000 in damage.   
      
   Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was “repulsed” by the hooliganism, and Police   
   Commissioner Dermot Shea called the so-called J31 protests “criminal.”   
      
   “You can’t have a situation in New York City where people are putting up   
   on social media intending what they’re going to do. ‘Knives, aim for their   
   neck, blind police officers,’” Shea said.   
      
   Husain recently scrubbed most of his social media posts so exactly what   
   role he might have played in the underground explosion is not known.   
   Protesters called for a free transit system with “no cops” patrolling the   
   subways. Some vandalized stations by pouring glue or honey into turnstiles   
   to jam them up, or chaining doors open.   
      
   Husain did not return messages seeking comment. After Post inquires last   
   week, his contact information was deleted from NYU’s web site.   
      
   Asked if Husain is being probed in the wild spree or was one of those   
   arrested, the NYPD refused comment. “We don’t ever comment on specifics,”   
   said NYPD Lt. John Grimpel. A spokeswoman for the Manhattan District   
   Attorney’s Office said they had no arrest records for Husain.   
      
   At NYU, Husain may be imparting his radical ethos to students, teaching a   
   class on militant activism, according to the school’s web site.   
      
   Born in Palestine, Husain has spoken publicly about attacking Israeli   
   soldiers as a teenager during the first Palestinian Intifada, a four-year-   
   long uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza   
   which began in 1987.   
      
   “I was throwing rocks, Molotov cocktails, the like,” he said at a pro-   
   Palestinian rally in Times Square in July 2016 captured on a YouTube   
   video.   
      
   Founded in 2016 by Husain and fellow activist Nitasha Dhillon — an India-   
   born artist — Decolonize This Place describes itself online as a grass-   
   roots social justice organization that seeks to raise awareness of the   
   struggles of Native and African Americans, Palestinians, and other   
   marginalized groups.   
      
   But the web site also features various revolutionary manuals, including a   
   diagram entitled “How to Shut Down the City.” The drawing shows a step-by-   
   step guide on how to overpower an opponent, including kicking in the face   
   and groin. Thought bubbles feature words such as “nails,” “glass bottles”   
   and “masks.”   
      
   Husain teaches a workshop called “Art, Activism, and Beyond” in the   
   “experimental humanities” department of NYU’s Gallatin School for   
   Individualized Study, a small interdisciplinary college whose alumni   
   include actors Rooney Mara and Dakota Fanning. The workshop “interrogates   
   the relationship between art and activism,” and uses anarchist movements   
   such as Occupy Wall Street and Direct Action Front for Palestine, an anti-   
   Israeli group, as case studies, NYU’s web site says.   
      
   A former lawyer who received a master’s of law degree from Columbia   
   University, Husain worked in the New York office of multinational law firm   
   King & Spalding for five years beginning in 2004, before pursuing   
   photography and becoming a part-time instructor at NYU in 2014, according   
   to his LinkedIn profile and public records. He also holds teaching   
   positions at the New School and Pratt Institute, according to LinkedIn.   
      
   “Our records reflect that he is one of the thousands of part-time faculty   
   that are hired each year by schools and academic departments,” said NYU   
   spokesman John Beckman.   
      
   Between 2018 and 2019, Husain was among the leaders of a months-long   
   protest at the Whitney Museum of American Art which forced the resignation   
   of its vice chair Warren Kanders over his control of a company that   
   manufactures tear gas that was used against migrants on the US/Mexico   
   border.   
      
   In 2016, Husain was part of a demonstration at the Museum of Natural   
   History that demanded the removal of the now-controversial statue of a   
   horse-borne Theodore Roosevelt flanked by two standing Native Americans at   
   the entrance.   
      
   Husain also took a lead in protests at the Guggenheim which targeted the   
   museum’s use of migrant labor at its planned satellite location in Abu   
   Dhabi.   
      
      
      
   --   
   No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.   
      
   Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in   
   denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016.  The clown car   
   parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump   
   truck.   
      
   Congratulations President Trump.  Thank you for cleaning up the disaster   
   of the Obama presidency.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
   The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood   
   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
   President Trump has boosted the economy, reduced illegal immigration,   
   appointed dozens of judges and created jobs.   
      
   Senile loser and NAMBLA supporter Nancy Pelosi got "Trumped" on February   
   5, 2020.  "President Trump, Not Guilty."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca